Sega announces Sonic Mania - new 2D game, 25th anniversary

[Neon Black]

Watch, comprehend, discuss. Looks seriously fantastic to me - exactly the kind of game we all expected from Sonic 4 and didn't get.

[Lynchenberg]

Glad they're finally listening to fans. I'm not really a gamer, so I can't offer many thoughts on that front, but the animation on Sonic on the title screen at the end looks great.

[Neon Black]

Notice the Sonic Team logo is very conspicuously absent - essentially it's a fan spinoff/remake with the official stamp from Sega, which is perfectly fine by me. We'll wait and see what the mainline Sonic game is, but in the meantime I predict this will still be the game I'm actually hanging out for.

Christian Whitehead deserves mention as he's one of the guys that ported Sonic 2 and Sonic CD to Android and iOS - and they weren't just the original ROMs running in an emulator, they were full-on, ground-up rewrites that led to uncapped frame rates, restored cut content and some new stuff, all whilst being pretty much 100% on-point to the physics and mechanics of the original games. That's a pretty amazing technical feat for just two people - I assume the same engine's being used for this one.

[Lynchenberg]

If I'm not mistaken, is this the main Sonic game?



"Join the resistance." Hmm. That definitely might have some appeal to old school Archie, SatAM, Underground, and StC fans.

[Lynchenberg]

Eight minutes of gameplay!

[Manic Man]

Sonic Mania looks awesome! I have absolutely nothing to complain about whatsoever.

The physics look spot-on, the level design is designed with Sonic's speed and physics in mind while remaining interesting to explore, the elemental shields are back, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are playable, and, best of all, the game looks fun!

Sonic 2017 (the Modern Sonic game) looks interesting with its darker tone, return of Classic Sonic, and the "join the resistance" tagline. It's very intriguing that Sonic 2017 was announced over a year before its anticipated date of release. This is looking like a very big game with a much more in-depth story than what we got with Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations. I really like this game's tone. It's not quite Shadow the Hedgehog or Sonic 2006 levels of dark (due to the slightly cartoonish nature of Modern and Classic Sonic's animations), but it's dark enough to be a welcome change in tone.

However, due to the lack of gameplay in the teaser, I can't say anything else about Sonic 2017. I'm just going to have to wait and see.

[Lynchenberg]

Sonic Mania looks awesome! I have absolutely nothing to complain about whatsoever.
Sonic 2017 (the Modern Sonic game) looks interesting with its darker tone, return of Classic Sonic, and the "join the resistance" tagline. It's very intriguing that Sonic 2017 was announced over a year before its anticipated date of release. This is looking like a very big game with a much more in-depth story than what we got with Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations. I really like this game's tone. It's not quite Shadow the Hedgehog or Sonic 2006 levels of dark (due to the slightly cartoonish nature of Modern and Classic Sonic's animations), but it's dark enough to be a welcome change in tone.

I feel it's rather questionable to place so much faith in such precarious pursuits as a new...






SONIC THE HEDGEHOG







...game under the SEGA brand, although your remarks on Sonic Mania are quite felicitous! Your name doesn't have to be Sir Grecion G. Gleason or Queen Peter P. Palliser to know that simply being released by Sega rather than being produced by Sega bodes in Sonic Mania's (surely orgasmic) favor with oh so much fervor! The Sonic brand under the Sega band of bland, alas, seems quite inexorable at this point, dear friends, dear hens, dear pens, and dear pen pals. A single tear runs down one's cheek. Their last true masterpiece materialized on the cusp of the ''fin-de-siècle'' as French fags wearing gags and hags in drag say each day before they sit down to pray. So yes my brethren, my conclusion, (be it oh so true son,) is such that their recent run of games have proven quite stultifying. Soon it seems, Sonic fandom might as well be antediluvian for all the relevance it shall have! Cuts himself and cries in a corner.

However, due to the lack of gameplay in the teaser, I can't say anything else about Sonic 2017. I'm just going to have to wait and see.

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[DaddlerTheDalek]

Sonic Mania looks like a lot of fun!

[Lynchenberg]

Sonic Mania looks like a lot of fun!

My, my, my! Well that's a horse of a different colour! Yessiree, bob! Fishers of men! In America, they leave the ''u'' out of colour!

[SegaShinobi27]

Sonic Mania looks incredible. Project 2017 is still mostly unknown though. Need more footage.